| 单词 | swamp post oak |
| 释义 | > as lemmasswamp post oak Any of several kinds of North American oak having hard close-grained durable wood much used for posts, sleepers, etc., esp.: (a) Quercus stellata, found in sandy soils of the central and eastern United States (also called iron-oak); (b) (in full swamp post oak) Q. lyrata, of river swamps in the southern United States (also called overcup oak). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > [noun] > oak as timber tree oakeOE oak treeOE mountain oak1609 white oak1610 Spanish oak1716 iron oak1724 post oak1775 Slavonian1809 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > oak and allies > [noun] > other oaks red oakOE cerre-tree1577 gall-tree1597 robur1601 kermes1605 live oak1610 white oak1610 royal oak1616 swamp-oak1683 grey oak1697 rock oak1699 chestnut oak1703 water oak1709 Spanish oak1716 turkey-oak1717 willow oak1717 iron oak1724 maiden oak1725 scarlet oak1738 black jack1765 post oak1775 durmast1791 mountain chestnut oak1801 quercitron oak1803 laurel oak1810 mossy-cup oak1810 rock chestnut oak1810 pin oak1812 overcup oak1814 overcup white oak1814 bur oak1815 jack oak1816 mountain oak1818 shingle-oak1818 gall-oak1835 peach oak1835 golden oak1838 weeping oak1838 Aleppo oak1845 Italian oak1858 dyer's oak1861 Gambel's Oak1878 maul oak1884 punk oak1884 sessile oak1906 Garry oak1908 roble1908 1775 B. Romans Conc. Nat. Hist. E. & W. Florida 18 The principal however are the following:..Virginian white oak... Dwarf white oak, or post oak. a1816 B. Hawkins Sketch Creek Country 1798 & 1799 in Coll. Georgia Hist. Soc. (1848) III. 19 The trees are post oak, white and black oak, pine [etc.]. 1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies xvii Our march to-day lay through straggling forests of the kind of low scrubbed trees..called ‘post-oaks’ and ‘black~jacks’. 1865 Michaux's N. Amer. Sylva I. 40 Quercus lyrata..is called the Swamp Post Oak, Overcup Oak, and Water White Oak. 1945 B. A. Botkin Lay My Burden Down 263 They found the body of a white man hanging to a post oak. 1975 New Yorker 5 May 101/1 All but six of the thirty-six holes are set off by themselves, framed by borders of post oak—a pretty tree that loses its large leaves in winter but retains its attractiveness because of the pleasing contortions of its branches. 2001 New Yorker 5 Mar. 77/3 Travis, picking his way through a stand of gnarled post oaks ahead, looks like a Marlboro Man in the making. < as lemmas |
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